Scottish comedy favourite Still Game is to make a return to the SSE Hydro with a fresh run of shows next year.

Writers Ford Kiernan and Greg Hemphill, who star in the show as badly-behaved pensioners Jack Jarvis and Victor McDade, announced on Thursday that they were creating a new original live show.

The cult series will return to the small screen on BBC Scotland on October 7, the same day that tickets will go on sale.

Kiernan and Hemphill decided to create a new TV series after the success of their sell-out live shows at the Hydro in 2014.

They will reprise their roles alongside other favourite characters such as Winston, Isa, Tam and Navid.

Demand for the new Hydro shows, which will start on February 4, is expected to be high, after the first live dates in 2014 sold out for 21 nights and entertained more than 210,000 fans.

The show follows the antics Jack and Victor in their home in Osprey Heights, a tower block in the fictional Craiglang area of Glasgow.

The new six-part series was filmed over the summer at a purpose-built set in BBC Scotland's Dumbarton studios.

The comedy grew as a spin-off from Hemphill and Kiernan's Chewin' The Fat sketch show and ran for six series between 2002 and 2007.